 | 1811 - 702 sidor
...blind bard may be credited, his infernal spirits adopted. " Behold a wonder! they but now who scem'ii In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Thronged numberless." . This poem is divided into two pans. The first commences with a most beautiful... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 sidor
...These ponderous Tomes would contract their size, as suddenly as Milton's Devils in Pandemonium ; " Behold a wonder ! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's Giant Sons, flow, less than smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless." Shakspeare would suffer less than... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1820 - 532 sidor
...the true demi-gods. For his own living hour, each may possess all the expansion of popular lenown ; but, when they come to take their place among the...dead, " Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In hienessto surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less th.in smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless."... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 sidor
...Swarm'd and were straitenM ; till the signal giv'n Behoid a wonder ! they, but now who seeui'd 778 In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng'd numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, 780 Whose midnight... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 sidor
...775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, ia narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 760 Beyond the Indian mount : or fairy elves,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 368 sidor
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that among the... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 538 sidor
...thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till the signal given, Behold a wonder ; they bat now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs." (441.) Fungi have been very variously distributed, and the subordinate groups very variously named... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 sidor
...their shapes immense :' " So thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till the signal Riven, Behold a wonder ; they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant son?, Now less than smallest dwarfs." (441.) Fungi have been very variously distributed, and the subordinate... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 584 sidor
...their shapes immense" — So thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. * Ktrby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 218. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 582 sidor
...— So thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder I they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among... | |
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So thick the aery crowd Swarmed, | and were straitened ;] till, the signal given, Behold a wonder !] They) but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, | Now less) than smallest dwarfs... 
